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NEKES COLLECTION of OPTICAL DEVICES, PRINTS, and GAMES, 1700-1996, Bulk 1740-1920 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8x0nf5tp No online items INVENTORY OF THE NEKES COLLECTION OF OPTICAL DEVICES, PRINTS, AND GAMES, 1700-1996, bulk 1740-1920 Finding Aid prepared by Isotta Poggi Getty Research Institute Research Library Special Collections and Visual Resources 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 Phone: (310) 440-7390 Fax: (310) 440-7780 Email requests: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/reference_form.html URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/conduction_research/library/ ©2007 J. Paul Getty Trust 93.R.118 1 INVENTORY OF THE NEKES COLLECTION OF OPTICAL DEVICES, PRINTS, AND GAMES, 1700-1996, bulk 1740-1920 Accession no. 93.R.118 Finding aid prepared by Isotta Poggi Getty Research Institute Contact Information: Getty Research Institute Research Library Special Collections and Visual Resources 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, California 90049-1688 Phone: (310) 440-7390 Fax: (310) 440-7780 Email requests: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/reference_form.html URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/ Processed by: Isotta Poggi Date Completed: 1998 Encoded by: Aptara ©2007 J. Paul Getty Trust Descriptive Summary Title: Nekes collection of optical devices, prints, and games Dates: 1700-1996 Dates: 1740-1920 Collection number: 93.R.118 Collector: Nekes, Werner Extent: 45 linear feet (75 boxes, 1 flat file folder) Repository: Getty Research Institute Research Libary Special Collections and Visual Resources 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 Abstract: German filmmaker. The collection charts the nature of visual perception in modern European culture at a time when pre-cinema objects evolved from instruments of natural magic to devices for entertainment. Most of the items date from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. Request Materials: To access physical materials on site, go to the library catalog record for this collection and click "Request an Item." Click here for access policy . Language: Collection material is in French, German and English. Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Publication Rights Contact Library Rights and Reproductions Preferred Citation 93.R.118 2 Nekes collection of optical devices, prints, and games, 1700-1996, bulk 1740-1920, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 93.R.118 Acquisition Information This collection, acquired in 1993, is a portion of the larger collection of optical devices, prints and games assembled by the German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. Processing History The collection was initially rehoused by Hillary Brown. In 1995-1997 it was processed and cataloged by Isotta Poggi. The collection was re-boxed by Alan Tomlinson in April 1999. The finding aid was edited by Jocelyn Gibbs in 1998-99. A large portion of the collection was included in the exhibition Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, 2000 at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Biographical / Historical Note Already a collector in his early childhood, Werner Nekes turned his interest to film and cinema history when he reached his twenties. While he was a student of linguistic philology and psychology in Freiburg and Bonn in the mid-1960s he worked on his first film. Between 1969 and 1972 he taught at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hamburg. While doing research for an article on thaumatropes, he began to collect devices, prints, and books related to pre-cinema technologies and entertainment. Ten years later, when he finally found an original set of thaumatropes in Cologne, he had assembled a broad range of material concerning anamorphosis, panoramas, camera obscuras, peepshows, metamorphosis, shadowgraphy, and optical illusions along with a supporting library. In the early 1980s he taught first as visiting professor at Wuppertal and later at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach. Some years later he worked as a consultant for the pre-cinema galleries of the Deutsches Film Museum in Frankfurt and co-founded the North Rhine-Westfalia film office, as well as the International Center for New Cinema in Riga. In this period he also designed and installed a room-sized walk-through camera obscura in a former Wasserturm, which had been turned into a museum in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr. In 1992, in the same museum, he exhibited his pre-cinema collection in the exhibition Von der Camera Obscura zum Film. In 1993 he organized the exhibition Schattenprojektionen and directed the Internationales Schatten-theaterfestival in Oberhausen. Since 1965 Nekes has directed more than 70 films (see his filmography in Appendix 1) including a series of documentaries that demonstrate how early optical devices, prints, and other objects contributed to the development of popular entertainment as well as to the evolution of cinema technologies. In these documentaries (available in the Getty Research Library on videotape) he used the material from his own collection, a portion of which was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 1993. Scope and Content of Collection The Nekes collection of optical devices, prints, and games charts the nature of visual perception in modern West European culture and the rise of popular artifacts which used movement and tricks of visual perception to amuse and astonish. The items date from circa 1700 to the early 20th century, with the bulk dating from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. The collection contains rare items such as a French camera obscura, circa 1750, as well as popular images, such as 19th-century magic lantern slides, paper silhouettes and greeting cards with moving parts. Other items include an 18th-century peepshow, peepshow prints, over 100 megalographs, a camera lucida, a Lorrain mirror, a zograscope, anamorphosis watercolors accompanied by a cone viewer, and circa 20 collapsible Engelbrecht perspective theatres. Arrangement Arranged in four series: Prints, circa 1700-1996 Cards and small printed items, circa 1750-1980 Artifacts, 1700- circa 1980 Subjects - Topics Animation (Cinematography)--Instruments. Drawing instruments Optical instruments Popular culture--Europe Genres and Forms of Material Advertising cards--1800-1900 Amusements Anamorphoses Camera lucidas Camera obscuras 93.R.118 3 Card games--1700-1900 Cast shadows Educational games Educational toys Engravings--Europe--18th century Engravings--Europe--19th century Flip books Games Lantern slides Magic lanterns Miniature theaters Montages--1700-1900 Optical toys--1700-1900 Optical illusions Peepshows Phenakistoscopes Physionotrace works Prints--Europe--18th century Prints--Europe--19th century Thaumatropes Stereoscopic photographs Stereoscopes--1700-1900 Toys Vues d'optique Contributors Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845 Campe, Friedrich, 1777-1846 Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 Shénan, J. E. Spooner, William Imagerie Pellerin (Epinal, France) L. Saussine (Firm) Riley Brothers, Ltd. S. W. Fores (Firm) Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Titles Optical devices collection (Getty Research Institute) Prints collection (Getty Research Institute) Series I. Prints, circa 1700-1996 Scope and Content Note Series comprises a variety of illustrations, most of which illustrate optical phenomena and the use of optical devices and toys. A few are toys designed to be manipulated so as to produce visual effects involving movement or transformation. Series is arranged in 2 subseries. 93.R.118 4 Series I. Prints, circa 1700-1996 Series IA. Prints depicting optical devices and optical phenomena, 1700-1996 Series IA. Prints depicting optical devices and optical phenomena, 1700-1996 Scope and Content Note Anamorphosis is represented in two documentary images that illustrate how to design anamorphic projections. A print by Hogarth depicts the result of misinterpreting the rules of perspective; several prints show an early 20th-century fictional vision of scientific progress and inventions in the year 2000 (from the series En l'an 2000). One print shows the manufacture of glass, and others show various optical devices (such as the zograscope, the camera lucida, and the magic lantern) and electricity. Twelve printed items show the use of the magic lantern. In one example the magic lantern is used as a slide projector in strategic military planning. Another (oversize) print, by J.E. Shénan, illustrates the atmosphere of a magic lantern entertainment show in the late 18th century (La laterne magique). One print shows dendrites and mineral abstract compositions (see also Series III for a florentine stone whose patterns resemble a Tuscan city skyline). Other oversize prints include two prints after paintings by L. Boilly, L'Amour couronnée and L'Optique, (the latter depicts the zograscope used for entertainment at home) and three posters advertise Werner Nekes'exhibition, Schatten Projektionen (held in Germany in Spring 1993), and his film series, Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bilder? in which Nekes shows artifacts from his collection, many of which are now in the Getty collection. Southwark Fair (after Hogarth) and four other prints illustrate various types of peepshow boxes and depict itinerant showmen carrying peepshows on their backs. The optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision is represented in a technical print which depicts a praxinoscope, and in a small advertising image for a zoetrope. A Lavater engraving shows how profiles may be traced by means of projected shadows. A manual contains instructions on how to cast shadows on a wall. Also
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